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After the big accounting scandal that came to light earlier this year, now they have announced ~7000 layoffs at Toshiba, mostly in Japan, but some worldwide.
This article says that the PC division will continue. Another source suggests that the PC division may be sold off. Anyone want to speculate about potential buyers?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Subsentient on Sunday December 27 2015, @08:40PM
They used to make glorious laptops that would last forever, my 1995 Toshiba Satellite Pro 405cs running a 2014 Linux distro is testament to that. But, for years, they've made garbage. They dropped in quality really badly, really fast. So, this news is not surprising. I also hear bad things about their hard disks.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 27 2015, @09:48PM
With a Capitalist operation, the people who are least responsible for the malfeasance|poor performance are invariably the first to be shown the door.
Logically, to increase the likelihood that there is not a repeat of the behavior, the cuts would start at the upper levels of the organizational chart where the damaging decisions were made.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 27 2015, @10:43PM
Used to fix laptops for a living and Toshibas very rarely came in. They were a bitch to take apart but designed well, and back in those days they were one of the first vendors to offer media players in a "dumb OS" mode in the BIOS without having to boot into the OS.
This is a true story you probably won't believe, but I fixed a Toshiba laptop for a woman and in return she let me borrow it when my own box went down. The laptop had a dead fan and overheated, and during a party I set a bag of ice on the laptop's keyboard. Everybody left, I passed out, and when I woke up the laptop was sitting in a puddle of water, still running like a champ.
I'm a Dell fanboy though. * ducks *
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 28 2015, @01:45AM
Never heard of or used this feature on any laptop.
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(Score: 1) by Wierd0n3 on Monday December 28 2015, @06:37AM
mid to late 90's the laptop manufacturers added a option to play CD's and DVD's OS-free. the media controls were placed along the front edge, so that you could play a cd without opening the lid. Likewise, the speakers were placed along the hinge, or below the laptop, so the sound wouldn't worsen if playing with the lid closed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @06:37AM
The OS-in-firmware thing? [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikipedia.org]
...or a media player inside that, specifically?
(Don't know about the latter.)
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(Score: 2) by Daiv on Monday December 28 2015, @07:40PM
Lookup the Toshiba Satellite 1800/1805 series. I still own an 1805-S207 and it's fully working. Exposed media buttons with the lid shut would eject the CD drive and allow you to play music CD's with the OS completely shut down. In the early 00's this was pretty handy as I was in college so my laptop doubled as my stereo CD player.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 28 2015, @10:03PM
I feel like this feature has disappeared in recent laptops.
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(Score: 2) by SacredSalt on Monday December 28 2015, @01:42AM
You aren't kidding about the hard disks. I bought my Toshiba laptop in August. Its already going in for warranty work due to HDD problems.
I guess I better expedite that warranty claim!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @03:13AM
That takes me back. I remember when they had good products, what 20 to 25 years ago now. After working on IT for a decade or so after that, I watched their products RAPIDLY decline into utter garbage. Funny thing about manufacturing, if you make crap then nobody wants to buy it. Then again, the modern business model is to conceal how crappy your product is until after you have the money. Does that make them "ahead of their time"?